”On the one hand, it’s politically impossible to stop growth. On the other hand, it’s biophysically impossible to continue it ad infinitum. So, which impossibility is fundamentally impossible?”

– Herman Dalyformer World Bank senior economist

”We created a way of raising standards of living that we can’t possibly pass on to our children.”

– Joe Rommphysicist

”As I see it, humanity needs to reduce its impact on the Earth urgently and there are three ways to achieve this: we can stop consuming so many resources, we can change our technology and we can reduce the growth of our population.”

– Sir David Attenborough

”You don’t have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.”

– Paul Ehrlichauthor: The Population Bomb

”We’re going to need some kind of radical break with our past behavior if we’re to engineer a viable future.”

– Mark BuchananBloomberg columnist

”Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

– Edward Abbey

”If the world is saved, it will be saved by people with changed minds, people with a new vision. It will not be saved by people with the old vision but new programs.”

– Daniel Quinnauthor: Ishmael and The Story of B

”We’ve globalized an utterly untenable economic model of hyperconsumerism. It’s now successfully spreading across the world, and it’s killing us.”

– Naomi Klein

”Continual increases in population and consumption cannot continue forever on a finite planet.”

– Richard Heinberg

”A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.”

– Paul Samuelsoneconomist

”If the world is saved, it will be saved by people with changed minds, people with a new vision. It will not be saved by people with the old vision but new programs.”

– Daniel Quinnauthor: Ishmael and The Story of B

”At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.”